The ethnological heritage museum of the Kannur University's Department of Anthropology at Palayad here has got another batch of archaeological finds unearthed by a former student.
N.K. Ramesh, former student of the Anthropology Department on the Kannur University's Palayad campus here, handed over a fresh cache of Stone Age archaeological finds to the museum, which already exhibits some of his earlier finds. His recent collection of materials includes Upper Palaeolithic tools excavated from the basin of the Kadanthara river in Kozhikode district.
“The implements found near the river basin include knife, lunate, notched scraper, spear-head, borer-cum-scraper and blade flakes,” says Mr. Ramesh who is associated with archaeological anthropology.
Made of quartz
The tools, made of quartz, indicate Upper Palaeolithic characteristics, he says, adding that spear-head tool clearly shows the hunting technique of Upper Palaeolithic man.
Earlier, Mr. Ramesh had discovered a Stone Age site at Panom forest in Kozhikode district. Similar tools were earlier reported from Nilambur by P. Rajendran, an archaeologist and University Grants Commission research scientist at the Kerala University's Department of History.
During his earlier archaeological exploration, Mr. Ramesh had discovered a proto-hand axe at Vanimal river basin in Kozhikode. It is a typical Lower Palaeolithic tool discovered for the first time from Kozhikode district. A pointed hand axe made of quartz pebble, it was found from the high terrace of the Vanimal River, he said. All these Stone Age implements were handed over to the museum of the Department of Anthropology where he studied.
